Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis